Cyrtopodium withneri L.C.Menezes 1996 Photo by © Emanoel Gomes

Common Name Withner's Cyrtopodium [American Orchid Enthusiast current]

Flower Size 1.28" [3.2 cm]

Found in Minas Gerais Brazil on large rocks or within their crevasses at elevations of 500 to 1300 meters as a medium sized, warm to cool growing rupicolus terrestrial with fusiform pseudobulbs carrying coriaceous, plicate, deciduous leaves that blooms in the winter on an erect, racemose, 3'4" [1 meter] long,

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References W3 Tropicos, Kew Monocot list , IPNI ; Orchid Digest Vol 60 #1 1996 photo fide; Orchids of The Brazilian Central Plateau Menezes 2004 photo fide;

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